The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

There is woman in Wayne
County, w. Va, who is the proud
possessor of a beard four inches long.
WHATS the matter with your eyes,
Joe?" "Been sitting ashes, Bill. The
winds against me, no matter how !
turn" Il never get ashes in my eyes,
joe" "How do you avoid it?" 81
let my wife sift them.-Harper'S Bazaar
"A leaf of the giant water lily (Vic-
toria regia) has been known to meas
ure "a feet st inches in circumference,
its weight being nearly IA pounds. One
of the flowers was A feet 2 inches in
circumference, with petals 9 inches in
length and weighed 81 pounds.
How fast does snail really travel?
We speak of a ''snail's pace" but what
idea does the expression convey to us
beyond the general one of extreme slow
ness3 Some one of an inquiring turn
of mind has recently determined by
measurement that the proverbial space"
is precisely a mile in fourteen days.
Yes" said Miss Breezy, of Chi
cago, ''it is a pleasure to dine at the
Wabashes. Mr.. Wabash is naturally
hospitable, and, aside from the general
excellence. every thing is served in a
way that is positively delightful to a
person of cultured tastes. And her
soups are delicious. WHY, do you
know" went on the young lady, ''that
last evening was served to soup three
times, and could easily have gone one
more. IN Y San.
"A little lad who is accustomed to
say his prayers every night has made
it his especial petition for a week past
to ask for pheasant weather." As
may be understood, the daily responses
have not been very encouraging to him,
and when he got to this point in his
little prayer last night he stopped
short, opened his eyes and asked his
waiting mother in plaintive voice:
Mamma, do you think God will say
Chestnut if l ask for that pleasant
weather again?"- -ProUidenc Journal.
The wearing of mems clothes in
public places by women has been COM
mon enough in Paris to daw the at
tention of the project of police. who has
published the law bearing on the case.
1t prohibits women from appearing in
mems attire in other than carnival days
without authorization from the police.
Lately, the story goes, a young woman
dressed in mans garb and wearing the
decoration of the Legion of Honor APP
peared in an official box and accom-
panied by an official parsonage at the
Opera omique.-BoSton Transcript
Photographic outfits are being
placed on board all United States men,
of-war with the purpose of illustrating
dispatches. All points of value in navi-
CATION are to be photographed and the
pictures are to be preserved for refer
ence at the Navy Department The
officers are encouraged to qualify them
selves as photographers. So long as
there is no demand for the creation of
the office of photographer general of
the navy with seventeen assistants with
the rank and pay of commodores. the
new departure will be good thing.
Careful estimates of damage sus-
tanned from the cotton worm, upon an
assumed value of $50 per bale on the
number of bales less than an average
crop, give, as the annual loss for the
fourteen years prior to 1873, in several
of the cotton States, the following
amounts: Georgia, So, 900; LOUISE
ana, 81, 900; Alabama. $4,7S9, 900;
Mississippi, Sc, $50, 900; Texas, $7,4O6,-
900; and in nine of the principal cotton
States the following result: A possible
loss of $50, 000,0 900 in years of general
prevalence of the caterpjller.-St Louis
Republican.